Thing Quotes

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.